Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This couldn’t sound more up my street, on the list it goes. 010
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They can try rebranding them as many times as they like, the 'river rooms' will always be Those Boiling Hot Pods Downstairs. 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Had similar thoughts visiting Lewes for a wedding last month. Lovely town, very affluent, shame much of the centre is either a race track or car park depending on the time of day. 010
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It looked like the (surprisingly young) woman setting up the display was gearing up to be there all day so I guess that was somewhere to rest and shoot the breeze with passers by. Nice day for it to be fair, and just across the road from a belting chippy. 110
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I was familiar with ‘Keir Starmer is dimming the sun‘ but not with the idea that tiny particles of graphene are being pumped into the atmosphere by governments in an effort to manipulate the weather. This was part of a larger display covering digital ID, cashless societies and chemtrails. 120
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Spotted a new conspiracy theory in Didsbury yesterday. 220
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Or support Leicester and let your club do all the work for you. 110
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If government u-turns on this very limited form of fiscal devolution it might as well give up on the much more comprehensive programme it’s planning to set out in the next few weeks. 041
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Losing the plot a bit over coverage of the visitor levy. It’s framed here as a centrally imposed tax (it’s not), it will be a blanket 5% (it won’t), and that where levied it will obviously destroy tourism (it’s a very common tax in other countries, it doesn’t). www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comMinisters face backlash from hospitality industry over ‘tourist tax’ plansMany mayors welcome power to impose tourist tax but industry warns of ‘irreparable harm’ and job losses 062
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Can somebody please sign this bloke up for a permanent yoga retreat somewhere very far away so he can no longer manage my football club. 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Was at Old Trafford last weekend for Lancs v Northants. Lancs were bowled out first innings about 12 minutes before the scheduled lunch. Take lunch early and let Northants start their second innings after? Absolutely not, let’s have a 10 minute changeover, then 2 overs, then a 40 minute break. 010
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This bit made me chuckle. Every 20 year old who has ever been to Reading/Leeds has felt they were too old to be there. I was 17 when I went to Leeds and felt I was borderline too old then. It’s a festival for teenagers, nothing wrong with that. 110
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026You could ask me tomorrow and this would probably change but for now: 1. The Magnet, Stockport 2. The Marble Arch, Manchester 3. The New Oxford, Salford 4. Stalybridge Station Buffet Bar 5. The City Arms, Manchester 072
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Heard them on 6 Music about 18 months ago and assumed it was a Silkworm deep cut or something similarly 90s college rock. 020
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It’s a great New York novel as well as a great cricket novel - hope you enjoy it. 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026If it’s better than A Month In The Country it must be very good indeed. I shall add it to my reading list. Speaking of novels that arent specifically about cricket but where it plays a major role, have you read Netherland by Joseph O’Neill? 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Me on MapTap 🤝 Marcus Garvey “There are too many small countries in Africa” 010
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Yeah this is it. It’s skinfades. There are young lads at my gym who go once a week. 020
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Taken the afternoon off due to a severe case of #metrobankfever 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Sets us up nicely for a panicked recall for Jack Leach after losing the first two Ashes tests next summer and/or a clamour for Stokes to un-retire. 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Arrived into Euston to see lots of people wearing cowboy hats? Who appear to be heading to see someone called Luke Combs? Who is apparently a country singer? And seemingly big enough to sell out several nights at Wembley Stadium? 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I have it on good authority that Rayner has previously frequented Satan's Hollow. 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Great piece. This quote from Tony Travers is spot on. Local authority budgets are relatively clear, transparent and easy to scrutinise. Combined authority budgets - not so much. 131
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Kasper has a severe case of Greater Manchester mayoral by election fever #dogsatpollingstations 071
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Recently discovered that my 70 year old Dad was upsold these at the opticians after going in to buy some sunglasses. He now wanders around the garden listening to The Rest Is History through them and asking AI questions about plants. I am strongly discouraging him from wearing them in public. 1141
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Don’t know if you’ve seen but you get a (kind) shoutout in Janan Ganesh’s column today. Not sure about the rest of the piece mind… 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Sounds like the Council of Nations and Regions is dead. RIP u r wiv da intergovernmental angels now. 021
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 24/07/2026If Burnham is reviving the National Economic Council and mayors are attending, there are now three separate intergovernmental forums for English mayoral-national relations (Council of Nations & Regions and the Mayoral Council being the others). A bit of institutional tidying up required I think.theguardian.comRegional mayors to take key roles in UK policy decisions as part of No 10 North plansBurnham says ‘no one in government loses when power is shared’ as he revives Brown-era national economic council 040
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Notwithstanding the judicial reviews already launched, and those likely to come, I think it's full speed ahead with LGR and the new SoS won't change that. 030
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I didn't love that, but really like White Feather so quietly optimistic for the new album. 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Yeah, same. Must be one of my most listened to full albums of recent years. Funnily enough I can take or leave most of her other records. NFR and Chemtrails are the only others I get much from. 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I am utterly oblivious to most popular music but Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is one of my favourite albums of this decade. 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Glad this isn't just me Martin. Mostly I'm confident enough now to just roll with the Fs but occasionally I'll meet someone new or be doing some public speaking and be horribly aware of it. 110
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Watching the new PM enter Downing Street and recognising all the Manchester politicos and policy wonks. 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 17/07/2026English men's cricket learning nothing from English men's football in the dangers of going straight from chilled out vibes merchant to cold-eyed disciplinarian lunatic. 000
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Happy Local Government Reorganisation Day to all who celebrate. 051
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026He also appeared on Football Cliches, apparently at his request, and managed somehow to sound like he was thinking about football for the very first time. 030
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I am loath to be a chippy Northerner and complain about the London-centric media but millions of homes in the North West have been smothered by acrid smog for the last 4 days and I have barely seen mention of it in national outlets. 011
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Richard III has somehow been lost underneath the car park again. 110
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The fans hate the players, the players hate the fans, it’s going really well. 100
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Leicester on the other hand have adopted an ‘only knobheads’ recruitment policy in recent years. 110
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Ms Ray ft Nourished By Time - Miss You m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSP...m.youtube.comMs Ray - Miss You with Nourished By Time (OFFICIAL LYRICS VIDEO)YouTube video by Ms Ray 020
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Same here. The food is always fantastic and the staff so friendly. As @jack-bailey.co.uk says, the owners are reopening under a different name in the same location so I‘m sure whatever replaces Cantaloupe will still be worth visiting. 010
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Yes the M60 plus Lancashire Hill create a bit of a barrier for development of new town centre adjacent suburbs really. I believe there are quite a few new homes planned near the river and Vernon Park as part of the mayoral development corporation’s next phase. 010
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I will do! Not been to either of those yet. The Magnet remains my favourite pub in GM. Really looking forward to the new bookshop at Weir Mill too. 110